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This page is about Assets & Inventory Plugin for Jira DC. Using Cloud? Click here.

This documentation provides guidance on asset permissions and managing them for different user groups.

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What are asset permissions?

Asset permissions control user access to creating, viewing, updating, and deleting assets within specific asset types and schemes.

Instructions

App Administrators can create permission schemes through the Permissions Schemes page. These permissions can then be assigned to specific Asset Type Schemes and Asset Types

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A single permission scheme can be

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applied to multiple asset types.

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  • Jira admin role 
  • Groups
  • 'Logged In Users'

Step 1: Create the permission scheme

  1. Navigate to Assets > Settings > Permission Schemes.

  2. Click the Create new permission scheme button.

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  3. Give the permission scheme a name and, optionally, a description.

  4. Click Save.

  5. Select the permission scheme you've created, and click Configure. The Update permission scheme screen opens.

  6. Go to the asset permission you want to configure and click Edit.

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  7. Configure the asset permission. The following table lists the different types of asset permissions

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Asset permissions overview

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Permission

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Description

Scheme Manager

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Full access to browse, create, update, and delete assets.

Browse assets

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View asset type scheme assets, use the Asset Navigator, and

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see individual asset details.

Delete asset

Permission to delete assets.

Create asset

Permission to create new assets.

Update asset

Permission to update existing assets.

  1. Click Save.

Step 2: Assign Asset Type Scheme permission scheme

Custom field Permissions overview

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You can grant permissions to an entire Asset Type Scheme for one group and then assign different permissions for specific asset types within that scheme to another group. For example, developers might have full access to the Default Asset Types Scheme but no permission for the Employee asset type within that scheme.

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The steps described below can be applied to assigning a permission scheme to an Asset Type.

  1. Navigate to Assets > Asset Type Schemes.

  2. Select an Asset Type Scheme and click Configure.

  3. Under the Asset Type Scheme name, find Permission Scheme and click Configure. The Permission Scheme screen opens.

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  4. Select a permission scheme.

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  5. Edit it if needed, and click Assign selected permission scheme.

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Custom field permissions

Custom field permissions control user access to specific data fields within assets. Here's a breakdown of how it works:

Permission filtering status for custom fields

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‘Browse assets' permission is given

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Can select assets and see asset names for custom fields

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Can search dialog and see attributes for custom fields

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Enabled

No

No

No

Disabled

No

Yes

No

Disabled or Enabled

Yes

Yes

Yes

Assign "Asset Type Scheme" Permissions

It is possible to give permissions to an Asset Type Scheme to a group of users and then it is possible to give another group of users for a specific of asset types. For example developers will full access on Default Asset Types Scheme but will have no permission for Employee asset type under Default Asset Type Scheme.

Open Asset type configuration page. Click on the top settings icon (on the right side of the page) and then click "Asset Type Scheme Permissions". (Asset Type Scheme is the group of assets).

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Assign "Asset Type" Permissions

To set an Asset Type's permission, select Asset type on Asset Type Schemes configuration page and then click on the second settings icon (on the right side of the page) and then click "Asset Type Permissions"

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Displaying summary of assigned permissions

Displaying the summary of assigned permissions

To view the summary of the assigned permissions, navigate to Asset Type Schemes and open the Asset Type scheme you want to view. Then, click the cog icon on the top right and select Assigned permissions summary.

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If you open the summary on an Asset Type Schemes list, it will list all permissions. If you open it on a specific Asset Type Scheme configuration page, it will only display the permissions of that Asset Type Scheme.

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Example:

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